I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.